In the years following independence, the newly-formed United States of America look westward for their expansion, hoping to ...

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with the terms of President Trump's controversial executive order to rename the body of water.

The Geographic Names Information System, which is under the United States Geological Survey, provides the names used in Google Maps. Mount Denali in Alaska is also getting a name change.

The body of water between the United States and Mexico is now appearing on Google Maps as the “Gulf of America” for users in the United States. Google Maps Share Less than a month after an ...

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The company said that Maps will reflect any updates to the Geographic Names Information System, a database of more than a million geographic features in the United States. “When that happens, we will ...

Google Maps officially changed the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf ... renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America but only for the users in the United States, on the lines of President Donald ...

AN uneasy peace existed in the settlement at the headwaters of the Connecticut River known as Indian Stream. Both the United ...

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

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